Blogs Provide Storm Evacuees With Neighborhood-Specific News

Blogs Provide Storm Evacuees With Neighborhood-Specific News: "Blogs Provide Storm Evacuees With Neighborhood-Specific News

By Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 7, 2005; Page D04

As the world's news media show the big picture of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, some Web sites are finding ways to provide specific information to those hungry for details about their homes and local landmarks.

Brian Oberkirch's Web log ( http://slidell.weblogswork.com ) has become such an outlet, filled with dispatches and photos from people who ventured back into Slidell, a community four miles from the Louisiana coast he and thousands of others evacuated before Katrina blew through."